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In reply to the discussion: WTF ...10 [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Courses in college or high school yet somehow did not find it that all hard to fuck over their fellow Americans once they got the big job Wall Street, when push came to shove and the gobs of money were theirs if only they would do so.
Liberal art classes may or may not help you to have a high set of morals. I have known people educated at the "best schools" who took the best-est artsiest fartsiest classes in the world, and went on to be grade a jerks. Meanwhile there are probably plenty of people out there who wouldn't know a haiku from a road sign but they have lived lives of kindness and moral values.
I did not have the money to do the liberal arts thing in college, but went to a trade school. (Did get to attend a great liberal arts HS, though.) And a library card enabled me to keep up with most of what is going on in the art world, the literary world, etc.
My point is that college is very expensive, and at what point is that worth it? My kid was winning poetry contests at age nine, so another year of that did exactly what for him? My feeling is that if the company wanted him while he interned, then he was good enough to go ahead and take the job. Obviously the company had other thoughts on the matter. But it doesn't resonate with me that a person will be a drone-killing moral midget just because they haven't had any liberal arts training.